Chapter 132: You Never Intended to Help My Brother From the Start

This is an office; someone could knock and come in at any moment.

Is he insane!

Feeling the stiffness and trembling of the woman in his arms, Sheng Yu opened his eyes to look at her fluttering eyelashes and reminded her in a low voice: "Focus, don't delay my meal."

"I don't want to delay you now, just eat, don't starve yourself." Zhu Yuan pushed against his chest.

Sheng Yu firmly grasped the two hands pushing his chest, his eyes filled with a playful smile. "My body won't starve, but it's easily stifled. It's rare for you to care about my body so much, I can't let you down."

He easily undid the buttons of her coat, then pulled down the zipper of her sweater.

The tight-fitting base layer clung to her exquisite upper body, curving gracefully from her flat abdomen upward, a beautiful shape.

"Sheng Yu..." Zhu Yuan gasped, her eyes turning red.

Sheng Yu chuckled, pressed a button on the desk, and the office door locked automatically. He cradled her flushed, shame-filled face in his palm. "Is this better now?"

Zhu Yuan's small face turned in his palm, her gaze sweeping toward the floor-to-ceiling window.

"They can't see from outside." The next second, Sheng Yu spread her legs and lifted her up.

Zhu Yuan whimpered in his arms.

The night was deep and thick; the vehicles on the road outside the thirty-second-floor window had gradually thinned out.

After it was over, Sheng Yu carried Zhu Yuan into the bathroom to rinse her off, wrapped her in a bathrobe, and placed her back on the bed.

Zhu Yuan half-closed her eyes and saw the electronic clock on the nightstand showing that nearly an hour and a half had passed.

Is this something someone who is starving can do?

As her body gradually regained some strength, she turned over.

Listening to the sound of rushing water in the bathroom, the document that had fallen on the floor flashed through her mind. The word 【Patent】 that had flickered by surfaced again, leaving her completely sleepless.

She vaguely sensed something was wrong, propped herself up to sit, and glanced toward the bathroom; Sheng Yu was still showering.

She quickly put on her clothes, opened the lounge door, walked briskly to the desk, squatted on the floor, and pushed aside the files on top; in the middle was a proposal book.

The title that had been covered before came fully into view.

Zhu Yuan's hands could not help but tremble; it was the Patent Application Proposal!

Her gaze locked directly onto the applicant's name: Zhu Jingyao.

Her face, which had not yet lost its flush, turned pale in an instant.

Her brother's patent application proposal!

She clearly remembered Sheng Yu mentioning to her before that the proposal had already been submitted for review, so how could it be in his office?

At this moment, she did not notice the lounge door behind her opening.

Sheng Yu was casually tying his bathrobe belt, seeing Zhu Yuan already dressed and squatting on the floor. The person who had been crying that she was too tired just a moment ago had the energy to rummage through things now?

The man narrowed his eyes.

Zhu Yuan sensed a deep, dark gaze landing on her; her heart tightened, and she subconsciously gripped the proposal book.

"Why is my brother's patent proposal here?" She looked at Sheng Yu in confusion.

Sheng Yu's gaze shifted down from her face, glanced at what she was holding, and his eyes deepened.

A moment of silence was already close to the answer.

She had thought it might have been rejected or some other reason, but her assumption simply didn't hold up; if it had been rejected, Sheng Yu would have told her.

The proposal book shook in her hands, and Zhu Yuan's eyes turned red. "You were lying to me, weren't you? From the very beginning, you never intended to help my brother. You just wanted to use this as bait to keep me dangling, didn't you?"

Looking at the cold man before her, she suddenly felt like a fool kept in the dark.

So he had only told people to arrange it, and it hadn't been submitted at all.

Poor brother, who wanted nothing more than a sentence reduction to get out of prison early, persisting even under such harsh conditions.

Yet his sweat had been discarded to the side by someone else.

Sheng Yu strode forward, slowly walked up to her, snatched the item from her hand, and threw it on the desk. Seeing her looking sad because of Zhu Jingyao was an eyesore.

He pinched her chin. "Did I not say that the key to whether the patent application passes lies with you?"

"Haven't I done enough?" Tears flooded Zhu Yuan's eyes—it was humiliation and anger. The sudden rebound made her almost unable to control her emotions. "You wanted me to sleep with you, you wanted me to be obedient, I did it all! What else do you want from me!"

"Not enough." Sheng Yu tightened his grip, his eyes fixed on hers.

Thinking of her brother's efforts being trampled like this, Zhu Yuan covered her eyes in a breakdown, pushing Sheng Yu with all her might.

But the next second, Sheng Yu grabbed her hands away and pulled her into his arms. His hard arms were about to snap her slender waist. "If you cry for Zhu Jingyao again, I will make sure he never gets out for the rest of his life!"

Zhu Yuan looked at him with a blank expression.

Thinking of the scene of her writhing in pleasure under him just minutes ago, she felt nauseated and wanted to vomit. Thinking of her own derailed heart, she felt like a joke.

She could feel Sheng Yu's changes, but in the end, he remained unchanged to his core; he was still that man who only knew how to rely on force and coercion!

Sheng Yu simply didn't understand how to respect the person he liked. To accompany a man—and a man with psychological barriers—to grow up, the price to pay was too great.

She gradually calmed down, laughed at herself, and tears fell silently. She quickly wiped the corners of her eyes. "I was too extreme just now. I suddenly saw the proposal and couldn't keep my head. Don't be angry."

Sheng Yu took in her submissiveness.

He pulled out a cigarette and lit it. The pale smoke rose, isolating the icy air pressure between the two.

He pressed the button on the desk, and the door lock automatically released. He said coldly, "Get out."

Zhu Yuan subconsciously glanced at the food container on the desk; the food inside had long since gone cold. At this moment, no matter what she said, Sheng Yu would only think it was hypocritical.

She turned and left in silence. The moment she closed the door behind her, she heard the sound of something being swept off the table inside.

Outside the President Office, the secretaries had already been dismissed by Situ.

As soon as Zhu Yuan came out, they all heard the commotion inside.

Enzo frowned, worried about whether Zhu Yuan had been wronged inside, but he didn't dare ask directly. It seemed he had done a disservice with good intentions.

Zhu Yuan didn't expect to see them as soon as she stepped out and hurriedly turned her face away, but Situ and Enzo were faster than her; the moment they saw her red eyes, they immediately looked away.

It was already nearly one in the morning; returning to the hospital at this hour would easily startle Grandfather.

Zhu Yuan sat in the car, waiting for Sheng Yu's car to drive out of the Sheng Corporation underground garage.

The two cars drove along the road, one behind the other.

Situ glanced at the rearview mirror and said to the man in the back seat who was resting with his eyes closed, "Young Master Yu, Miss Zhu is following us."

The man slowly opened his eyes, his pair of black eyes cold and desolate.

"Let her."